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A Tribute to Dick Cole

Posted on October 8, 2016January 17, 2019 By Ann Thompson

dick-cole-2008You will see, in the column at the left, that the ​“Gath­er­ings” began in 1993. At that time, we thought that it was a one-time event, which was held in northern Petaluma. I had no idea that the group had started up again by Dick Cole and some others who had attended the first event. Gath­ering 1999 shows the Geezer group at a restau­rant in Sonoma, Dick’s home­town. As the atten­dance grew, the restau­rant could no longer hold us. The park in Corte Madera became an easier loca­tion for the crowd.

Through the years, Dick Cole was able to share his water­color paint­ings with the commer­cial art and the fine art communities.

This, below, is a collec­tion of Dick Cole’s paint­ings that appeared as the 2008 calendar for the Bank of Marin. For several years, the calen­dars were offered to the Bank of Marin’s account holders. Each year, Dick would remove one of the twelve and add a new painting from a loca­tion in Marin County. The year that the bank was no longer presenting this beau­tiful calendar, I took this 2008 calendar and kept using it by finding the month with the correct sequence of days and I’d stick on a note where I printed the current month — so I could keep seeing Dick’s paint­ings. At one of our Geezer picnics, I told Dick that I did this- — I got one of his wonderful smiles.

We will miss seeing any more new paint­ings with Dick Cole’s deft touch.
We will miss his jovial wit. We will miss his friendship.

Ann

Tennessee-Valley. by Dick Cole
Tennessee-Valley. by Dick Cole 
Sausilito by Dick Cole
Sausilito by Dick Cole 
Fairfax by Dick Cole
Fairfax by Dick Cole 
Belvedere.by Dick Cole
Belvedere​.by Dick Cole 
Ross by Dick Cole
Ross by Dick Cole 
Novato by Dick Cole
Novato by Dick Cole 
Petaluma by Dick Cole
Petaluma by Dick Cole 
Novato 2 by Dick Cole
Novato 2 by Dick Cole 
Spirit-of-Marin-Bank-Event by Dick Cole
Spirit-of-Marin-Bank-Event by Dick Cole 
San Rafael by Dick Cole
San Rafael by Dick Cole 
San Anselmo by Dick Cole
San Anselmo by Dick Cole 
Olema by Dick Cole
Olema by Dick Cole 

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